swap_horiz Patrick Soon-Shiong Alternatives

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William Osler

William Osler (1849–1919) was a Canadian physician who became one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospi...

Education 19TH Century Founder Johns Hopkins

9.2 Excellent

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) was a Spanish histologist and physician whose detailed microscopic studies of nervous...

19TH Century Neurology Neuroscience Nobel

9.2 Excellent

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Avicenna

Avicenna (Ibn Sina, c. 980–1037) was a Persian polymath whose medical encyclopedia "The Canon of Medicine" (al-Qanun fi...

Medieval Pharmacy Persian General Medicine

9.2 Excellent

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William Halsted

American surgeon at Johns Hopkins who pioneered aseptic technique, introduced rubber surgical gloves, and established on...

19TH Century Pioneer Surgery Johns Hopkins

9.0 Excellent

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E. Donnall Thomas

E. Donnall Thomas (1920–2012) was an American physician who pioneered bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leu...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Nobel

9.0 Excellent

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Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899–1985) was an Australian virologist and immunologist who spent most of his career at the Wa...

Australia 20TH Century Immunology Nobel

9.0 Excellent

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D.A. Henderson

D.A. Henderson was an American epidemiologist and physician recognized for his leadership in the global eradication of s...

20TH Century Pioneer Epidemiology Who

9.0 Excellent

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Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771) was an Italian anatomist and professor at the University of Padua. His five-volum...

18TH Century Italian Anatomy Pioneer

8.9 Great

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René Laennec

René Laennec (1781–1826) was a French physician who invented the stethoscope in 1816, originally as a wooden tube to lis...

18TH Century French Pioneer Cardiology

8.9 Great

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Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop is an American microbiologist whose research with Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Fran...

20TH Century Oncology Nobel Ucsf

8.7 Great

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Sidney Farber

Sidney Farber was an American pathologist who is widely recognized as a foundational figure in modern pediatric oncology...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Chemotherapy

8.6 Great

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Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus is an American physician and biomedical researcher who made significant contributions to the understanding...

20TH Century Oncology Nobel Nih

8.5 Great

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Bernard Fisher

Bernard Fisher is an American surgeon and clinical researcher whose work fundamentally changed the surgical and systemic...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Breast Cancer

8.5 Great

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Emil Freireich

American oncologist Emil J. Freireich was a physician-scientist who co-developed curative combination chemotherapy for c...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Leukemia

8.4 Great

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William Kaelin

American physician-scientist William G. Kaelin Jr. is a professor at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the D...

21ST Century Harvard Oncology Nobel

8.4 Great

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Peyton Rous

Peyton Rous was an American virologist and pathologist who received the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He w...

20TH Century Oncology Nobel Rockefeller

8.4 Great

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Emil Frei

Emil Frei was an American physician and oncologist who played a foundational role in the development of modern cancer ch...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Leukemia

8.2 Great

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Vincent DeVita

Vincent DeVita is an American oncologist and physician-scientist who has held leadership positions at the National Cance...

20TH Century Oncology Chemotherapy Nih

8.2 Great

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Denis Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt was an Irish surgeon and medical researcher known for his significant contributions to oncology an...

20TH Century Pioneer Africa Oncology

8.0 Great

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William Coley

William Coley was an American bone surgeon and cancer researcher who practiced in New York during the late 19th and earl...

19TH Century Pioneer Immunotherapy Cancer

7.6 Good